Time:
Thursday, February 26
12:30-1 PM – Lunch
1-2:15 PM – Talk and Q&A
Location:
Nottingham Trent Newton & Arkwright building, ARK009
Human-Computer Interaction in a Crisis
Human-Computer Interaction is facing a crisis. Like many other disciplines, we are being confronted with having to decide how, what and when to use AI in our research and practice. As we are discovering, GenAI can now competently perform all manner of UX tasks and research activities previously done by human practitioners and human researchers. Not only can it do extensive desk research at lightning speed it can also simulate users, run hypothetical experiments, create synthetic data, conduct thematic analysis, design new apps, and even write an impressive CHI paper. What should we as a field be doing about these developments? Do we embrace all the changes afoot or try to put our foot down and resist? In my talk, I will put forward what it means for us as a community as our field lurches ever more towards being AI-enabled HCI.
Yvonne Rogers is a Professor of Interaction Design at University College London. Her research is concerned with designing interactive technologies that can empower humans, especially human-centred AI, and how to develop AI tools to think with. Central to her work is a critical stance towards how visions, theories and frameworks shape the fields of HCI, cognitive science and ubiquitous computing. She been instrumental in promulgating new theories (e.g., external cognition), alternative methodologies (e.g., in the wild studies) and far-reaching research agendas (e.g., “Being Human” manifesto). She has received various awards including the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Research Award, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society Robin Milner Medal for computer science. She is one of the authors of the definitive textbook on Interaction Design and HCI now in its 6th edition, that has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.